Instead, we erected laws, bureaucratic procedures and various other forms of mediation.
According to a Human Rights Watch report, Lebanese laws "erect greater barriers for women than men who wish to terminate unhappy or abusive marriages, initiate divorce proceedings, ensure their rights concerning their children after divorce, or secure pecuniary rights from a former spouse.
Such egregious barriers are in the past, but the rash of new laws erecting hurdles in the 2012 election cycle has chilling echoes.
Accordingly, for Hook, programs of affirmative action could be justified if they functioned to help a deprived individual student overcome deficiencies in his educational background or to eliminate any bars to opportunity that had been erected by discriminatory laws or practices.
Under obscenity laws, an erect penis can't be shown on mainstream TV, while an erect nipple can.
The epidemic here has driven people to erect fences and pass laws and hire sharpshooters and hold candlelight vigils and even spy on neighbors.
They set the stage for an ugly mess, with states rushing to erect their own rogue laws, which then have to be dismantled by the courts piece by piece.
"Despite mifepristone's great potential to improve medical services for women, anti-abortion state legislatures have already erected a labyrinth of laws restricting all abortion," Ms. Benshoof said.
Advertisers, publishers and online commerce companies are warning that a proposed European Union law would erect barriers to communicating across borders in the union.
By demolishing the building, with its 9,000 square feet, a buyer could more than triple the space under zoning laws by erecting a high-rise of 12 to 14 floors.
The statue's opponents were unable to show that the 1,100-pound 1,100-poundused thememorialand Glendale didn't break any laws by erecausedithem Central Park in July 2013, according to a court order signed last week by U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson.
